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...many ways, I could see Greg managing to carry off many lectures, maybe two lectures a week, with a thousand people in the audience,” Laibson says. “Greg could do that and it would be inspirational...
SZTYKIEL The money allocated two to three years ago is just starting to filter down to the states where they're starting to spend it on fire trucks. But the same demographics that drive the RV business drive the ambulance industry. Eleven thousand Americans turn 50 every day. They're entering the core buying market for RVs. But this also means more of us are taking rides in ambulances...
...helped to spawn an industry of history-infused thrillers - most recently, Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code. Eco is not convinced by Brown's formula: "The whole conspiracy of that plot ... is contained in Foucault's Pendulum. It's all old material that's been covered a thousand times before. Brown was very good at taking trash lying around and turning it into a page turner. But it makes me laugh that people take it seriously." Still, Eco treats lowbrow cultural phenomena with the same seriousness as higher-flown accomplishments. In one essay, for example, he analyzes the essence...
Even as allegations of Koran abuse at the U.S.'s naval base in Cuba were still making headlines, the Pentagon was bracing for a new storm as reporters last week sorted through several thousand pages of transcripts from tribunals in which detainees challenged their designation as enemy combatants. Earlier, as the government prepared to release the transcripts, as required by a Freedom of Information Act filing, military officials reviewed them, looking for "potentially controversial and embarrassing items" about which their superiors should be notified in advance, according to a Pentagon memo that TIME has seen. To make sense...
...defended acre in the world." The occasion of the day is the pending retirement of several of West Point's highest officers, the heads of History and Social Sciences, the dean of Academics, and cadets are performing one of the tasks they hate most: parading across the field, a thousand of them in their stiffest formal grays, plumes whipping in the heavy wind...